screenreader

What do screen readers do with an ellipsis unicode character?

For example, the unicode character "…" or the thing you get in HTML if you use the … entity. How will the various screen readers pronounce this? ...

Screen Readers For Testing Website Accessibility

My website is designed to meet the accessibility guidelines. I'm HOPING that this means screen readers should work well with it...... But I have two questions Is this a fair assumption to make? Are there any free/cheap screen readers clients I can use to test or online emulators? ...

Good how-to's for acessibility in WPF/XAML?

I'm building a WPF app and I'm tyring to find information or a walk through on how to make it accessible for screen readers. I've trawled through MSDN and found some articles regarding UI Automation (UIA). Basically I found a lot of "okay, this is UIA! it's used for testing but also accessibility" but nothing along the lines of "this is ...

Looking for Alternative to TortoiseHG under Win32

I'm looking for an alternative GUI client for Mercurial that works on Win32 and that is accessible to a screen reader, specifically, JAWS for Windows. TortoiseHG doesn't work for me because of its reliance on GTK/Tkinter under Python. Something programmed in WXPython (or any other WX equivalent), as well as any app programmed using sta...

WPF FlowDocumentReader and FlowDocument Screen Reader (NVDA) Acccessibility

I am using a FlowDocumentReader to display FlowDocuments in a .NET 3.5 WPF application (the FlowDocuments have help/info/notes that are displayed based on user choices in the ui). I assumed that the FlowDocumentReader contents would be read/recognized by a Screen Reader (I am testing with NVDA on Windows 7) - but when the reader gets fo...

Screen reader reads flash in Google's Chrome but not in Internet Explorer 8

The screen reader (JAWS) is able to read the textfield in flash on Google's Chrome but not in Internet Explorer 8. I'm using the latest version of swfobject. ...

need help with markup for nested table data. needs to be semantic and accessible.

see image here: http://www.x-reference.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/nested-table-data.gif How should I write the code for the section entitled "Retiree and Employee On Demand Community" so that screen readers don't get confused on it? A nested table doesn't seem to be the best solution, it doesn't seem semantic either. The data in th...

Recording Screen Interactions using UI Automation for Silverlight controls.

Hi, I am trying to use UI Automation to record screen interactions in my Silverlight app. I have the Automation Peers for my control setup but am not able to figure out how to track these controls. For my WPF app I would get hold of AutomationElement.RootElement and then navigate down to my App and setup Automation event Handlers on th...